Jules Sergei Fediunin, winner of the Prix Emile Perreau-Saussine 2025

2 December 2025

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CREE is delighted to announce that Jules Sergei Fediunin, a young doctor affiliated with CREE, is the winner of the 14ᵉ edition of the Émile Perreau-Saussine Prize for his book Les nationalismes russes (Calmann-Lévy).
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Jules Sergei Fediunin avec la couverture de son ouvrage : "Les Nationalismes russes", édité au sein de notre collection "Liberté de l'esprit" © Calmann-Lévy‎

The Emile Perreau-Saussine Prize honors a researcher under the age of 40 in the humanities and social sciences. It was created in 2011 as a tribute to Emile Perreau-Saussine, professor of political science at Cambridge and lecturer at Sciences Po.

Jules Sergei Fediunin describes the landscape of the new Russian nationalism in all its nuances: from its ethnocultural version that exalts the values proper to the Russian nation, to the imperial tradition that dreams of restoring the power of the state. He shows how the war in Ukraine has radically transformed this "nationalist galaxy", giving it both new vigor and new faces.

After long alternating between repression and co-optation of nationalists, Putin has appropriated their discourse. This recycling has enabled him to secure popular support at home and justify his aggression abroad. For how much longer?

Beyond the Russian case alone and the outcome of the war in Ukraine, Russian Nationalisms contradicts certain naïveties that persist in Europe and reminds us that neither nationalisms nor wars between states are about to disappear.